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Overview

Cristina Cusin is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, neuroscience, and psychology, reflecting interdisciplinary expertise across these domains.

Their work has been published extensively, with a significant number of studies appearing in journals such as:

  • Biological Psychiatry
  • The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • American Journal of Psychiatry
  • Psychological Medicine

Cusin's research covers several specialized subfields, including pharmacology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, and biological psychiatry. This range underscores a focus on both fundamental brain processes and clinical applications within mental health.

The main topics explored in their work include:

  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Diet and metabolism studies

Frequent collaborators in Cusin's research include Maurizio Fava, David Mischoulon, Madhukar H. Trivedi, Maren Nyer, and Paola Pedrelli, indicating a network of coauthors engaged in overlapping fields of study.

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Cristina Cusin are:

  • Diagnosis and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder (2023) published in JAMA
  • Monitoring Changes in Depression Severity Using Wearable and Mobile Sensors (2020) published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Omega-3 Fatty Acids for Major Depressive Disorder With High Inflammation (2022) published in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
  • Body Mass Index as a Moderator of Treatment Response to Ketamine for Major Depressive Disorder (2020) published in Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology
  • Case Report of Dual-Site Neurostimulation and Chronic Recording of Cortico-Striatal Circuitry in a Patient With Treatment Refractory Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (2020) published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

The breadth of these topics illustrates Cusin's engagement with both clinical treatment modalities and neurobiological mechanisms underlying psychiatric disorders.

Best Publications

  • A Randomized Sham-Controlled Trial of Deep Brain Stimulation of the Ventral Capsule/Ventral Striatum for Chronic Treatment-Resistant Depression

    Darin D. Dougherty;Ali R. Rezai;Linda L. Carpenter;Robert H. Howland

  • Double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-ranging trial of intravenous ketamine as adjunctive therapy in treatment-resistant depression (TRD)

    Maurizio Fava;Marlene P. Freeman;Martina Flynn;Heidi Judge

  • Factors affecting fluvoxamine antidepressant activity: influence of pindolol and 5-HTTLPR in delusional and nondelusional depression.

    Raffaella Zanardi;Alessandro Serretti;David Rossini;Linda Franchini

  • Rating Scales for Depression

    Cristina Cusin;Huaiyu Yang;Albert Yeung;Maurizio Fava

  • Influence of tryptophan hydroxylase and serotonin transporter genes on fluvoxamine antidepressant activity.

    A Serretti;R Zanardi;D Rossini;C Cusin

  • Open-label placebo for major depressive disorder: a pilot randomized controlled trial.

    John M. Kelley;Ted J. Kaptchuk;Cristina Cusin;Samuel Lipkin

  • Repeat-dose ketamine augmentation for treatment-resistant depression with chronic suicidal ideation: A randomized, double blind, placebo controlled trial.

    Dawn F. Ionescu;Kate H. Bentley;Matthias Eikermann;Norman Taylor

  • Test–retest reliability of freesurfer measurements within and between sites: Effects of visual approval process

    Zafer Iscan;Tony B. Jin;Alexandria Kendrick;Bryan Szeglin

  • Tryptophan hydroxylase gene associated with paroxetine antidepressant activity.

    Alessandro Serretti;Raffaella Zanardi;Cristina Cusin;David Rossini

  • Insomnia improvement during antidepressant treatment and CLOCK gene polymorphism

    Alessandro Serretti;Cristina Cusin;Francesco Benedetti;Laura Mandelli

  • Monitoring Changes in Depression Severity Using Wearable and Mobile Sensors.

    Paola Pedrelli;Szymon Fedor;Asma Ghandeharioun;Esther Howe

  • Influence of monoamine oxidase A and serotonin receptor 2A polymorphisms in SSRI antidepressant activity

    Cristina Cusin;Alessandro Serretti;Raffaella Zanardi;Enrico Lattuada

  • Serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR) is not associated with depressive symptomatology in mood disorders.

    A Serretti;C Cusin;E Lattuada;D Di Bella

  • SSRIs antidepressant activity is influenced by Gβ3 variants

    Alessandro Serretti;Cristina Lorenzi;Cristina Cusin;Raffaella Zanardi

  • Transcranial Photobiomodulation for the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder. The ELATED-2 Pilot Trial

    Paolo Cassano;Samuel R. Petrie;David Mischoulon;Cristina Cusin

  • Serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR) and major psychoses.

    Alessandro Serretti;R. Lilli;C. Lorenzi;E. Lattuada

  • Ketamine augmentation for outpatients with treatment-resistant depression: Preliminary evidence for two-step intravenous dose escalation:

    Cristina Cusin;Dawn Flosnik Ionescu;Kara Jean Pavone;Oluwaseun Akeju

  • Rapid and Sustained Reductions in Current Suicidal Ideation Following Repeated Doses of Intravenous Ketamine: Secondary Analysis of an Open-Label Study.

    Dawn F. Ionescu;Michaela B. Swee;Kara J. Pavone;Norman Taylor

  • Near-Infrared Transcranial Radiation for Major Depressive Disorder: Proof of Concept Study

    Paolo Cassano;Cristina Cusin;David Mischoulon;Michael R. Hamblin

  • A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of pramipexole augmentation in treatment-resistant major depressive disorder.

    Cristina Cusin;Nadia Iovieno;Dan V. Iosifescu;Andrew A. Nierenberg

  • Somatic therapies for treatment-resistant depression: ECT, TMS, VNS, DBS

    Cristina Cusin;Darin D Dougherty

Frequent Co-Authors

Alessandro Serretti
Alessandro Serretti Kore University of Enna
David Mischoulon
David Mischoulon Harvard University
Raffaella Zanardi
Raffaella Zanardi Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Albert Yeung
Albert Yeung Harvard University
Darin D. Dougherty
Darin D. Dougherty Harvard University
George I. Papakostas
George I. Papakostas Harvard University
Paola Pedrelli
Paola Pedrelli Massachusetts General Hospital
Thilo Deckersbach
Thilo Deckersbach Harvard University
Lee Baer
Lee Baer Harvard University
Fabio Macciardi
Fabio Macciardi University of California, Irvine

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